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Ortega-Martorell, S, Ruiz, H, Vellido, A, Olier, I, Romero, E, Julia-Sape, M, Martin, JD, Jarman, I, Arus, C and Lisboa, P (2013) A Novel Semi-Supervised Methodology for Extracting Tumor Type-Specific MRS Sources in Human Brain Data. PLOS ONE, 8 (12). pp. 1-14. ISSN 1932-6203
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Abstract
Background: The clinical investigation of human brain tumors often starts with a non-invasive imaging study, providing
information about the tumor extent and location, but little insight into the biochemistry of the analyzed tissue. Magnetic
Resonance Spectroscopy can complement imaging by supplying a metabolic fingerprint of the tissue. This study analyses
single-voxel magnetic resonance spectra, which represent signal information in the frequency domain. Given that a single
voxel may contain a heterogeneous mix of tissues, signal source identification is a relevant challenge for the problem of
tumor type classification from the spectroscopic signal.
Methodology/Principal Findings: Non-negative matrix factorization techniques have recently shown their potential for the
identification of meaningful sources from brain tissue spectroscopy data. In this study, we use a convex variant of these
methods that is capable of handling negatively-valued data and generating sources that can be interpreted as tumor class
prototypes. A novel approach to convex non-negative matrix factorization is proposed, in which prior knowledge about
class information is utilized in model optimization. Class specific information is integrated into this semi-supervised process
by setting the metric of a latent variable space where the matrix factorization is carried out. The reported experimental
study comprises 196 cases from different tumor types drawn from two international, multi-center databases. The results
indicate that the proposed approach outperforms a purely unsupervised process by achieving near perfect correlation of the extracted sources with the mean spectra of the tumor types. It also improves tissue type classification.
Conclusions/Significance: We show that source extraction by unsupervised matrix factorization benefits from the
integration of the available class information, so operating in a semi-supervised learning manner, for discriminative source identification and brain tumor labeling from single-voxel spectroscopy data. We are confident that the proposed methodology has wider applicability for biomedical signal processing.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | MD Multidisciplinary |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer) R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
| Divisions: | Applied Mathematics (merged with Comp Sci 10 Aug 20) |
| Publisher: | Public Library Science |
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| Date Deposited: | 07 May 2015 14:17 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 14:25 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0083773 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/1038 |
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